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Company: Arnott, Cannock & Co

Company name: Arnott, Cannock & CoDates in business: c 1850-1860

Type of business: drapers

Type of company:
Partnership

Locations:

Jamaica Street,
Glasgow,
Scotland

Company history

In about 1850, John Arnott, a Dublin merchant, established a drapery and general
warehouse at 19 Jamaica Street, Glasgow as a branch of his business already
established in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Cork and Dublin, Ireland. The shop
traded as Arnott, Cannock & Co. It sold men's clothes, dress materials,
towellings, sheetings, linens, blankets, quilts and counterpanes.

In September 1860, the partnership between Arnott and Cannock was dissolved, and
Thomas Arnott, half brother of John Arnott, assumed control of the Glasgow business
which traded thereafter as Arnott & Co.